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Oct 30-Nov 16 2006 Collections: Art, Kitsch and Other Personal Treasures

My grandmother loved Hummel figurines.  As a child, my sister amassed everything even related to horses and I now have a friend who avidly collects aprons. While the objects collected may be widely different from person to person, it seems that most of us possess the same relative desire to accumulate related objects…or perhaps to store memories or meaning.  What quality is it that makes us want, even need, to gather, save and arrange objects? What do we treasure and why?  This exhibition will form a temporary collection of collections in attempt to shed light on this instinctive, and often intimate, phenomenon.

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